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Monday, April 27, 2026

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Fridays mean four square for Turlington Plaza players

Picture a typical Friday at UF. Turlington Plaza is filled with its usual crowd of students, professors, fraternity members and the occasional shouting preacher. You could find this assortment of people walking across the pebbled ground of Turlington any day of the week.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Surgical Cuts: Proposed budget targets most vulnerable

We’ve been mentioning our governor’s proposed budget cuts here and there, but it’s time to get specific about people on the losing side. Of course, most organizations receiving government funding could be counted among the losers, but the money needs to be sheared from somewhere. We just don’t like that people who are already struggling may have their helping hands abandon them.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Anti-Planned Parenthood arguments ridiculous

I just wanted to say “bravo!” to Zack Smith for his insightful column published Monday on why Planned Parenthood should lose its funding. His sleuthing uncovered the fact that even though absolutely zero government dollars spent on the organization go toward abortion services, some of the money they receive is instead being used on insidious programs like “sexuality education” and “public policy objectives.”


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Chain looks to fix what isn’t broken

Starting in March, Starbucks customers will experience a slight alteration to their experience in the form of an updated logo. Starbucks recently unveiled the design, which while not very different omits the text from the famous emblem.


Florida Alligator
News

Clarification

The Florida men’s basketball team has already clinched at least a share of the regular-season Southeastern Conference East championship. Losing Saturday at Kentucky prevented the Gators from winning the title outright — not from securing it, as written in Monday’s Alligator.


Florida Alligator
News

Clarification

An article about a Regional Science Bowl that ran on Monday stated that 17 high schools competed. It should have said that 17 high school teams competed.


News

Becoming an optimist

Optimists tend to perform better at work, resist depression when bad events occur and have better physical health.


Sports

alligatorSports Video Show, Episode 7

On the seventh installment of our weekly video show, Greg Luca returns from Lexington, Ky., with analysis and interviews of the Gators' 76-68 loss to the Wildcats in Rupp Arena and a brief look forward at Florida's upcoming showdown with Alabama. Jesse Simonton and Anthony Chiang also recap the No. 1 UF baseball team's weekend sweep of Boston College in Gainesville.



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